It says HERM on the back so that's good enough for me!

Hi guys

look at my thread HTC TyTN / .... / Mercury.

The Mercury was the original HTC in house name for the platform that Hermes was designed on. TyTN is the brand associated with Hermes and is v1605 / VPA Compact III from Vodafone, Trion from O2 etc.

Whilst it is possible that there will be other Mercury devices in the future (not just Hermes), as for devices with the HERM reference, they are pretty much just brands of the same thing (possibly with cosmetic changes). If you have a look at all the retail models, they have exactly the same technical spec.

VPA Compact III is v1605 is Hermes is Mercury.

Paul.

Yeah, we pretty much know that, but we had a rather, shall we say excitable debate about the name of the Wizard which is a MiniS which is a Prodigy which is a........ you get the drift.

I think Des was hearing the sound of distant thunder.......

hahaha, here we go again.

Well got mine now and all I can say is wow! The pictures just don't do it justice. My new toy is charging now!

Good luck with it Bydandie!

Remember, I run the 'Home for Unwanted Windows Mobile Devices' if its no use

Glad you are happy with it Des, looking forward to your thoughts!

Well after one day of use, I am extermely impressed in a number of ways:

The storage and available RAM are far more than the Vario with the same specs for ROM and RAM (APprox 50Mb ROM free after a hard reset and around 25Mb RAM during operation).

The battery life is easily the equal of the Vario (But I may have to uninstall FlexMail as I suspect that this still doesn't auto synch POP3 mails). But even so with the device connected for installing progs and disconnected during most of the day only 80% battery useage.

The signal is better too, with the signal rarely losing its connection which is better than both the IQ and Vario.

The camera is indeed fantastic and even the sliding mechanism of the keyboard feels like something you would expect in a Bentley.

If all this sound like I'm in love well I am, the v1605 even comes with a dialler app which the Orange M3100 and TyTYN doesn't come with. The device came with the initial alignment doen so maybe this shows that Voda are checking the devices for flaws prior to release?

The only downside is that the CPU isn't noticeably faster for me than the Vario with the 2.26 ROM. This may be perception though.

Overall though I really can't see how the Vario II and M3100 will beat this for demand if Voda get a decent data tarrif. This really has to be seen to be believed, as Dave has said already it is the only device to be released without major niggles in it's release state!

Pop3 auto sync works flawlessly on my MiniS, why wouldn't it work on the Hermes?

I think Des was saying that Flexmail doesn't autosync, I think built in messaging does, or did you mean Flexmail as well Ian?